New Zealand Carrot Cake with Buttercream Frosting
It was birthday again for one of my colleagues at the office where I work and the birthday girl specifically asked for a carrot cake, so she got a carrot cake! I have made a test run at home before the Bday to make sure the cake will turn out good, for my Mr’s great pleasure – the recipe below is for a 20cm (8″) cake, I halved the amounts of the ingredients to make 2 small test cakes in my good-looking heart-shaped cake pans.
New Zealand Carrot Cake with Buttercream Frosting
adapted from BBCGoodFood
Ingredients:
250g plain wholemeal flour
180g brown sugar
3 eggs
175ml sunflower oil
55ml sour cream
Approx. 1 teaspoon gingerbread spice
2 level teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
300g grated carrots
75g desiccated coconut
For the topping
110g full fat soft cream cheese
50g unsalted butter
50g sifted icing sugar
Preparation:
1.Pre-heat the oven to 150°C/300°F. You will need one 20cm (8 inch) cake tin (lined with baking paper) and two mixing bowls.
2.In the first mixing bowl place the eggs, oil, sour cream. Next sieve the sugar into it to avoid lumps.
3.Into the second bowl you sift the flour, gingerbread spice, cinnamon, soda, salt.
4.Beat the wet ingredients and the sugar together, then fold in the dry ingredients, followed by the carrots and coconut. Mix well to distribute everything evenly, then spoon into the cake tin and bake on the centre shelf for about 1 hour, until the top of the cake springs back when pushing it down with a finger.
5.When the cake is cool mix the topping ingredients together and spread thickly all over the top. As an option you can slice the cake in half and spread some of the ‘topping’ in between the two halves as well.
For an extra touch, my Mr sprinkled the cake with some coloured chocolate sprinkles:
Note: As I had to carry the cake to the office in the pan (so as not to ruin the frosting), I have placed a double line of aluminium foil into the pan before putting the cake in it, this way I was able to simply grab the two ends of the foil and lift out the cake. Illustration of the same, below 🙂
The “Test” Cakes!
No frosting on these, but it didn’t seem to bother any of us! YuMm
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Carrot cake always works well with whole grain flour. I have a whole wheat carrot cake this is nice and very moist.
I tend to like plain white flour better, it just seems to work better in my kitchen, haha! You have an amazing blog, those cranberry sauce recipes, yum, I’ve never tried any but now I have to!
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a New Zealand carrot cake but it looks wonderful. I wonder how the Aussies can claim it as theirs? 🙂
Well, to tell the truth, I have no idea, this is just how it was called over at BBCGF 🙂 Thanks to whoever wrote it!Welcome to the blog Maureen 🙂
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